Cortana the voice assistant from Microsoft will be a separate app in the release of Windows 10 build 2004 or 20H1. In our case even disabling Cortana from the Group Policies did not work as effective as we would have liked. Weird bugs started appearing that disabled Cortana on the second screen but did not […]
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When looking around for an easy way to clean up servers and the accounts that use the servers I wanted a way to clear the Recycle Bins for all users. Consultants leave a lot of crap around on servers apparently. However because we use various versions of PowerShell there are various methods of doing so.
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I needed a set off scripts to check the status of Fast Startup on a number of machines because of power plan issues. However running to the machines and checking is not smart at all. So I created a simple set of scripts that can check computers what the current Fast Startup status is and
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Not my best script I’ll say that before we begin but it gets the job done. It is a simple script that is still a bit rough that allows you to enable BitLocker on a machine from the comfort of your own computer using PowerShell Remoting. We used the script to test out a possible
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Normally I would suggest people to start running a virtual machine that needs backing up on something else other than VirtualBox however because of my recent migration from VMWare to VirtualBox this question arose. I am a Windows Insider and I use a VM to test the image and new features. During this process I
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Just installing the updates might not be enough in some cases. Some computers needs registry values and keys created and set to enable the mitigations that Microsoft released for Windows 10. To smooth out this process I created a simple script for myself that allows you to remotely set the registry keys and values required
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We recently ran into a problem with changing the mail signature of a client that the new signature that he wanted was simply to long for Outlook Web App to handle by default. After a long search on the web we found a great link that helped us with the problem and got it resolved.
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To improve my workflow and department I needed to know what the current status was of the main office printer. Currently this is a Kyocera printer. Things like making sure that paper is available for users to print, detecting paper jams and managing toners is a simple job but very important in making sure the
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Before starting this post it is of course recommended to create and have backups of the complete server or SQL server in other means that this. But if you for example want an extra file level based backup that could be version controlled then this could be a solution for you. I wrote the script
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In the organization that I am working at it is very common to know names of people. Of course this is not always the case but more often than not I am asking myself when wanting to go into a remote computer, “What is the computer name of Timmy Tim?”. We are using Lansweeper and
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